I was in the grocery store today to pick up a few things. I walked by the meat department and looked at the beef. I saw a few packages of what was labeled as File Mignon and each package had three file chunks of meat under the clear wrapper and the packages weighted in at something over a pound each...

Military maps in use by Marines in WWII were set up different than Army maps in the Vietnam War 25 or so years later. There is one for sale I noticed in my mail this morning. Things different include....1000 yard squares divided into 200 yard sub boxes that aren't just imagined as a number out of a ...

Ugh. A Marmite and cheese pizza. Serve that at your next prayer meeting and it will beat sack cloth and ashes as penance for Adam's sin and the attendees personal sins as well.

Just stole this from facebook.

Wondering what to cook when the boss comes for dinner?

I recently got custody of a Browning ,what is now called a model SA-22, rifle. It takes apart at the place where the barrel meets the receiver. I proceeded to take it apart.....and accidently loosen a catch with two small springs and two small detents that went flying. I then ordered the correct par...

I have this old newspaper. The parents saved it. I wasn't born until the following month. It's got a big photo of the General who knew how to play the hero best and take the lions share of the masterminding it credit. He would go on to get Japan back to making what it does best...making cars and cam...

I was wondering how they came off of the shells in 9 or 10 inch pieces when the shells exploded. How did they keep from being blown to bits? I did some internet key punching and those bands from WWI look to have been larger than more modern round equivalent bands, and since they were softer metal, a...

Yeah, kind of like Renaissance wax that is a pretty good finish wax preserver that supposedly originated with the British Museum in England.